In The Tempest, when Ferdinand first meets Miranda, despite being immediately taken by her beauty, his primary concern is her chastity: "If you be maid or no." Sheri Metzger, in Cliffnotes on the The Tempest, states that the reason behind his unease is that "a man of property, especially a king or his son, must be assured that his offspring are truly his. ... This is explicit in The Tempest: Sycorax is not only dead before the play begins, but her absence allows her to be a victim of Prospero's defamatory recount.

... Brittany Blystone, in the Extremes of Gender and Powe...

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Gow has recreated scenes from the Shakespeare play Twelfth Night , in the opening scene of Away, and The Tempest, in the closing scene of Away. ... The beach scene in Away where all characters assemble after the storm to regenerate and start a new life, is also 'stolen' from The Tempest. ... Historical Literature in Shakespeare, a big part of our Western Culture, is recycled to provide meanings and symbolisms that the audience can readily understand. ...

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Performances of Shakespeare's plays are not isolated, unrelated occurrences. ... So, due to the position of adaptations of Shakespeare's plays within a large cultural framework one can analyse and explain the appearance of an adaptation. ... I will start with a general analysis of the topic related to Shakespeare's text. ... Indeed, Shakespeare's text suggests that the magical creatures of A Midsummer Night's Dream could be explained as physical allegories of nature. ... Shakespeare's Puck himself acknowledges that he is the cause of little domestic accidents. ...

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